Accessibility Contracts in the UK excluding London

Accessibility (a11y)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Accessibility skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Accessibility over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 193 209
Rank change year-on-year +5 +16 +14
Contract jobs citing Accessibility 153 225 293
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.20% 1.08% 1.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.43% 7.16% 8.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 146 240
10th Percentile £263 £375 £360
25th Percentile £327 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.57% -5.27% -2.35%
75th Percentile £515 £547 £573
90th Percentile £608 £634 £626
UK median daily rate £484 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +4.54% -7.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 23 2
10th Percentile £21.00 £14.00 -
25th Percentile £22.88 £14.14 -
Median hourly rate £27.35 £14.50 £16.77
Median % change year-on-year +88.62% -13.54% -
75th Percentile £28.28 £19.62 -
90th Percentile £29.03 £47.92 -
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £17.72 £23.36
% change year-on-year +59.03% -24.14% +11.82%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

Accessibility falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,060 3,142 3,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.14% 15.13% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,297 1,830 2,400
10th Percentile £209 £252 £213
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £665 £680 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 309 180
10th Percentile £17.28 £10.95 £12.50
25th Percentile £24.18 £12.63 £18.21
Median hourly rate £40.78 £18.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +126.53% -50.34% +72.21%
75th Percentile £67.03 £43.75 £62.00
90th Percentile £79.92 £67.38 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

Accessibility
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Accessibility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Accessibility in the UK excluding London

Accessibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Accessibility in the UK excluding London

Accessibility
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accessibility in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Accessibility in the UK excluding London

Accessibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Accessibility in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Accessibility in the UK excluding London

Accessibility
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accessibility within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +9 62 £455 -1.62% 131
North West +15 41 £453 -5.24% 77
Scotland -35 29 £480 +3.68% 24
Midlands +34 22 £406 -0.91% 69
South West +42 19 £400 -31.62% 61
West Midlands +22 17 £460 +12.20% 42
Yorkshire +2 16 £275 -35.29% 39
Wales - 9 £395 - 18
South East +18 8 £325 -25.50% 152
East of England +35 7 £450 -35.71% 40
East Midlands +14 5 £322 -19.50% 21
North East -2 5 £493 +8.78% 19
Northern Ireland -8 2 - - 19
Accessibility
UK

Accessibility
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.58%) CMS
1 7 (4.58%) Confluence
2 6 (3.92%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.27%) Apache
3 5 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.27%) Umbraco
4 3 (1.96%) R Markdown
5 2 (1.31%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.31%) EPiServer
5 2 (1.31%) WordPress
6 1 (0.65%) Drupal
6 1 (0.65%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.65%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 6 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.61%) Adobe XD
2 4 (2.61%) Chatbot
2 4 (2.61%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.31%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.31%) InVision
3 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.31%) Sketch
3 2 (1.31%) UserZoom
4 1 (0.65%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.65%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.65%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.65%) Final Cut Pro
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 34 (22.22%) Azure
2 17 (11.11%) AWS
3 13 (8.50%) Figma
4 12 (7.84%) Power Platform
5 11 (7.19%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (3.92%) Serverless
9 5 (3.27%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.27%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (2.61%) Google Analytics
11 3 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.31%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (1.31%) Canva
12 2 (1.31%) dbt
12 2 (1.31%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.31%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.96%) Intranet
2 2 (1.31%) Firewall
2 2 (1.31%) LAN
2 2 (1.31%) WLAN
3 1 (0.65%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.23%) Power BI
2 7 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.92%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.27%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.96%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.31%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.31%) Dremio
6 2 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.31%) GIS
6 2 (1.31%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.31%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.31%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.65%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.65%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.65%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 21 (13.73%) Git
2 12 (7.84%) JIRA
3 9 (5.88%) Cypress.io
3 9 (5.88%) Selenium
4 7 (4.58%) Jasmine
4 7 (4.58%) Mocha
4 7 (4.58%) Postman
5 5 (3.27%) Grunt
5 5 (3.27%) gulp
5 5 (3.27%) SoapUI
6 4 (2.61%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.61%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.61%) Subversion
6 4 (2.61%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.96%) Axure RP
7 3 (1.96%) GitLab
7 3 (1.96%) Storybook
8 2 (1.31%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (1.31%) webpack
General
1 55 (35.95%) Public Sector
2 40 (26.14%) Social Skills
3 18 (11.76%) Finance
4 17 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.50%) Marketing
6 10 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.92%) Legal
7 6 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.61%) Law
8 4 (2.61%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.61%) Publishing
9 3 (1.96%) Back Office
9 3 (1.96%) Multimedia
9 3 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.31%) Automotive
10 2 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Electronics
11 1 (0.65%) Military
11 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (20.92%) Developer
2 20 (13.07%) Senior
3 16 (10.46%) Designer
3 16 (10.46%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 14 (9.15%) Data Engineer
5 13 (8.50%) UX Designer
6 10 (6.54%) Analyst
7 8 (5.23%) IT Support
7 8 (5.23%) Lead
8 7 (4.58%) Tester
9 6 (3.92%) QA Tester
9 6 (3.92%) User Researcher
10 5 (3.27%) Architect
10 5 (3.27%) Project Manager
10 5 (3.27%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.27%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.27%) Support Officer
11 4 (2.61%) Content Designer
11 4 (2.61%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 4 (2.61%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (22.88%) CSS
2 31 (20.26%) HTML
3 24 (15.69%) Node.js
4 18 (11.76%) React
5 14 (9.15%) AngularJS
6 12 (7.84%) HTML5
7 9 (5.88%) RESTful
7 9 (5.88%) Sass
8 8 (5.23%) REST
9 7 (4.58%) CSS3
9 7 (4.58%) Vue
10 6 (3.92%) Jest
10 6 (3.92%) jQuery
11 5 (3.27%) AWS CDK
11 5 (3.27%) Mustache
11 5 (3.27%) PySpark
12 4 (2.61%) Apache NiFi
12 4 (2.61%) Express.js
12 4 (2.61%) Laravel
12 4 (2.61%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 8 (5.23%) Driving Licence
2 8 (5.23%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.23%) Social Media
3 7 (4.58%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.58%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.96%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.96%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.31%) Blog
6 2 (1.31%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.31%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.31%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.31%) Infotainment
6 2 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.88%) Linux
2 7 (4.58%) Unix
3 5 (3.27%) Windows
4 3 (1.96%) Mac OS X
4 3 (1.96%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.31%) Android
5 2 (1.31%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.65%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (37.91%) Agile
2 41 (26.80%) User Experience
3 28 (18.30%) Test Automation
4 27 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (16.34%) CI/CD
6 23 (15.03%) UX Design
7 22 (14.38%) Analytics
8 21 (13.73%) Mentoring
9 20 (13.07%) DevOps
9 20 (13.07%) Front End Development
9 20 (13.07%) User Research
10 19 (12.42%) TDD
10 19 (12.42%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 18 (11.76%) Decision-Making
12 17 (11.11%) Wireframes
13 16 (10.46%) Scrum
14 14 (9.15%) Collaborative Working
14 14 (9.15%) Project Management
15 13 (8.50%) Service Design
15 13 (8.50%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (25.49%) JavaScript
2 16 (10.46%) Python
2 16 (10.46%) SQL
3 15 (9.80%) TypeScript
4 11 (7.19%) Java
5 5 (3.27%) R
6 4 (2.61%) C#
6 4 (2.61%) PHP
7 2 (1.31%) Scala
7 2 (1.31%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.65%) Bash
8 1 (0.65%) COBOL
8 1 (0.65%) Go
8 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (9.80%) Degree
1 15 (9.80%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.19%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.58%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.65%) CIMA
4 1 (0.65%) CISM
4 1 (0.65%) CISSP
4 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.65%) ISEB
4 1 (0.65%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.65%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.65%) PMP
4 1 (0.65%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.38%) WCAG
2 12 (7.84%) QA
3 7 (4.58%) Disclosure Scotland
3 7 (4.58%) GDPR
4 5 (3.27%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.61%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.31%) COSHH
6 2 (1.31%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.65%) NCSC
7 1 (0.65%) PERC
7 1 (0.65%) PMO
7 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (7.19%) Docker
2 5 (3.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 5 (3.27%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.61%) Terraform
3 3 (1.96%) Grafana
4 1 (0.65%) Ansible
4 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.65%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.58%) Adobe
3 6 (3.92%) Oracle
4 4 (2.61%) Google
4 4 (2.61%) Twitter
5 3 (1.96%) Databricks
5 3 (1.96%) SAP
6 2 (1.31%) Avaya
6 2 (1.31%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (1.31%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (1.31%) Facebook
6 2 (1.31%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.31%) Instagram
7 1 (0.65%) Genesys
7 1 (0.65%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.65%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.65%) Pega
7 1 (0.65%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.65%) YouTube